Can I remove 'Capture Scratch'?

Hello everyone,
My Intel iMac 20" is having a lot of problems (used Monolingual - killed Rosetta; can't use Cmd+W in the Finder, Final Cut Studio apps not opening anymore (some Prokit.framework architecture problem)) and want to backup all files to my external HD and then do a clean install, but I seem to be having just too little space on my external HD.
My question is, can I remove the files in ~/Documents/Final Cut Express/Capture Scratch/?
Thanks.

Removing the capture scratch contents will remove all your captured media. If you don't mind that, go right ahead. I'd copy it all to a firewire drive. It OUGHT to be on a different drive than your system drive anyway.

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Can I remove my scratch directory?

I just got a big external drive (2TB). Looking around to cleanup and consolidate my other drives (external and internal) I found a folder on my internal drive named "FCP Scratch". I also found one on one of my other external drives named "FinalCut Scratch". What I want to know is, can I remove these and create a new scratch on the 2TB drive instead? If I remove these directories will this cause me any trouble? I haven't used FCE in over a year. If I have a project that I haven't completed yet, will removing these folders mess up these projects. Can I open the projects and point to a new scratch location? Will it move the old information, or is this just left over junk?
Thanks

You do not need to save the entire scratch directory.
What you need to save is your _FCE project file_ and any/all _source media files_ associated with it (video clips, audio files, photos, etc). There will be one FCE project file for each of your projects, normally found in your +Final Cut Express Documents+ folder.
Your captured clips are normally stored in the +Final Cut Express Documents/Capture Scratch folder.+ Audio & stills are wherever you saved them on your hard drive.
It's also a good idea to save at least the most recent 2-3 project backup files that are in your +Final Cut Express Documents/Autosave Vault+ folder.
There is no need to save anything in the render files, waveform or thumbnail cache folders.
In your case, change your FCE Scratch Disk location (in FCE) to the new drive. Then copy the appropriate files (project files + media) from your other two scratch folders into the corresponding folders on the new drive. (But DO NOT copy anything in the +render files, waveform cache or thumbnail cache+ folders).
Important - after you have copied all to your new drive, remove the files/folders from your old drives. (I would +back them up+ first (just for safety) and then delete them - make sure to empty the trash, too.) After doing this, when you open the project the next time you will be prompted to reconnect media - just follow the prompts and point to the correct folders on your new drive and things should be fine (as long as you copied the necessary projects & media files to the new drive)

How can I remove automatically scratches preserving the other areas of the photo?

I scanned negatives. Most of the scanned images show scratches.
For a given photo, I can easily remove manually all the very small scratches using Filter>Noise>Dust and Scratches>Radius = 1 and Threshold = 0 (Step 1). Then I can easily remove the remaining bigger scratches with the Spot Healing Brush Tool (Step 2). The only issue is that I have 13 000 photos to fix, and I don't have the time to correct them manually one at a time.
I have automated Step 1. How can I automate Step 2?
How can I automate Photoshop to scan a photo for scratches and when it find one apply a Spot Healing Brush Tool just on that spot with the required pen size?
Any other suggestions are welcome, as long as the quality of the picture is preserved and that the processing is automated.
Please see pictures attached.
This could save me days of work. Thankyou.
Environment Information:
· I am running Photoshop 12.1 *64 bit
· Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
· Amount of installed RAM: 6GB
·       Scanner: Canon CanoScan 8800F
· Amount of free disk space:
            C:\ - OS and Software disk - Total size:139GB showing 20GB free
            G:\ - Data disk - Total size:1.81 TB showing 437GB free
· Make/Model of Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Removing the bigger scratches cannot be automated.
Please do not be angry now - I don't want to offend you:
It is not reasonable to retouch all the 13000 pictures just now and one after another.
Not all the pics are of the same inestimable value and you never will need all of them at once for web galleries, a photo show or print.
And your digital photo frame is patient and is as happy with 25 pics as with 2500.
Therefore let the pictures sleep peacefully on your hard drive. It's good that you have digitized them and it's enough.
Someday you will need - say - 40 pictures for a gallery on your website, another day you want to make a gift of 3 pictures to a friend.
Then the day is come to retouch exactly these 40 or 3 pictures, individually.
:-) miss_marple

How can I remove fine scratches off the I Pad Retina Display ?

Dear Community,
I would appreciate to receive your experiences and tipps how to remove fine scratches off the I pad retina display without harming its surface ! Thx

Apple Stores sell a good screen cleaner which I would recommend for cleaning screens - it works well and doesn't do any damage. This might clean away a lot of what you see as fine scratches.
Other than this, I would stay away from anything else as you may well do a lot more harm than good.

IPod video... what can safely remove surface scratches?

Ok, I know this is a really stupid question, but I just paid $400.00 for a 60 gig iPod video and the slipcover they gave me w/ the iPod has really scratched up my iPod. What can I use on the iPod that will safely remove the surface scratches?
Another thing... what does the "i" in iPod mean? It's driving me nuts.
Thanks for the help.
-B
60 GB iPod w/ video Windows XP

the slipcover they gave me w/ the iPod has really
scratched up my iPod.
Actually, it didn't. The slip case is as smooth as a newborn baby's face. What happened to you will happen with any case or even with your fingers.
Dirt can get between anything and your ipod and cause scratches. When you pull your iPod in and out of the slip case, don't grab it from the back and front. Hold it from the metal sides always. The same goes for any case at all.
Even when you handle it with your hands, don't rub it hard because any dirt on your hands will scratch it.
None of this is even unique to the iPod. I holds true for anything shiny, including Sony's Walkman and my silver cigarette case!

Removing a scratch from the iPad back with Meguiar's Scratch X 2.0

Within three weeks of getting my new Ipad and with extreme caution of use, somehow I managed to create a 1" long faint scratch on the back of the unit. These kinds of scratches are unbelievably easy to make since the back of the unit is only anodized aluminum, a relatively soft metal with a coating that accentuates any scratch.   So I'd recommend anyone who cares about such scratches either put on a plastic coating like ArmorSuit MilitaryShield or get a case over the unit immediately after taking it out of the box (oh, and, by the way, some cases will themselves scratch the unit as will Apple's Smart Cover around the hinges - even if Apple doesn't admit it).
I tried to reduce the faint 1" long scratch's visibility using Meguiar's Scratch X 2.0. I rubbed the polish with a microfiber towel across the scratch (i.e. perpendicular swipes) for about 15 or 20 minutes applying between moderate to fairly high pressure with my finger.   The scratch was not removed, and that's expected because you really can't remove a scratch unless you reduce the material to the depth of the scratch or fill it with something; neither of which this product does. Indeed if Meguiar's did reduce the metal surface that much, the anodized aluminum finish would probably be removed and the case appearance completely ruined. However, Meguiar's reduced the scratch visibility by about 70% to my eye. I did take pictures to try to prove this, but they are not helpful because the camera's view of the scratch is almost entirely dependent on the angle of it with respect to the flash, so my camera simply cannot capture the real visibility of the scratch.
So did Meguiar's alter the color or nature of the anodized aluminum around the scratch? Yes, it did, but the effect is so slight that it would hardly be noticed unless you look at the surface at exactly the right angle with respect to the light. It basically slightly increased the luster where I rubbed. But the small increase in luster is nowhere near the increase a plastic coating results in, so for me it doesn't matter since I plan on applying the ArmourSuit (again). Other than that there was no real effect on the surrounding surface.
Summary: With a little elbow grease, Meguiar's Scratch X 2.0 reduced my new iPad scratch's visibility by approximately 70% and did not damage to the unit in any way. I recommend it for iPad scratch reduction if you made the mistake of not protecting your iPad, have a scratch, and are obsessive enough to be motivated to reduce it. Otherwise, I'd just save you money. Incidentally, Apple has purchased Liquidmetal technology around the launch of the new iPad. Liquidmetal is a patented amorphous metal alloy that promises the workability required for case molding yet is as strong or stronger than steel, so I suspect Apple's notoriously easy-to-scratch casings are soon going to be a thing of the past.

I decided to do one more treatment to the scratch because I was bored and it sounded like fun. I bought a Sharpie silver paint pen with extra fine point ( see http://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-Marker-Extra-fine-Silver-Single/dp/B003JJMW8C ). I think I paid like $2.50 for this exact pen at Michaels after a 40% rebate (they have them all the time; just print the online coupons).
The marker line was fine but, of course, far wider than the scratch and the color was much darker than the silver when wet. I let it dry for about a minute (it lightened as it dried to match the unit better), then I took one more drop of the Meguiar's Scratch X 2.0's and rubbed it gently with my finger a bit to remove the paint that was above the scratch, leaving the paint behind only in the crack (do NOT rub this for long or else it can remove all the paint)
The result is that the original scratch went from the 30% of the original scratch noticeably (after the Meguiar's treatment) to about 10%. Now it is nearly impossible to see unless you are viewing it from just the right angle (i.e. perpendicular to the line).
Attached are two pictures. I took a shot of the iPad before either treatment and adjusted it in Photoshop to be about exactly how noticeable the scratch was before the treatment (it was still under the ArmourSuit at that time). Keep in mind that this shot was angled intentionally to maximize its visibility, so this wasn't a super deep scratch. I then took another shot after both treatments and at the same angle. Again, I adjusted it slightly in Photoshop to match what I am seeing now (and again the shot is worse than real life - by a long shot).
I think the results shown in the picture are perfectly accurate and pretty much speak for themselves.   I would say the two steps were a 100% successful since I did not think I would be able to reduce the scratch as much as I did given what others were saying online.
Conclusion: you CAN remove iPad back scratches if you really want to!
Here is before (note there is a piece of cat hair on the right, not a second scratch)
After:

Resizing capture scratch/ large .mov files

Most of the time when I capture I get all the footage on the tape. I realized this is eating up my hard drive. Is there a way in quicktime I can edit these capture scratch files to where my capture scratch is contains only what I need?

Hi Paul,
In addition to Studio X and Andy there's another Media Manager workflow.
Make Subclips of the parts you want to keep. Advantage is that you can rename those subclips. Then use Media Manager: Delete unused media" and "filenames based on clipnames".
Read the manual before using Media Manager. It can be irreversible.
Also, to come to you original question, if you just want to delete some complete clips simple select those clips in FCP's browser and control Click > Make Offline > Remove from the disk. This deletes the quicktime files from the capture scratch folder on your disk. And it leaves the TC information of that clip within your project, so easy to recapture if needed. Note that this is also irreversible and you need to know what you are doing in these cases.
Rienk

Clearing the Capture Scratch file

When is it safe to clear the files in your capture scratch file? i am going to be upgrading to leopard and when i upgrade i want to strip my 3 hard drives. so before i do that i want to make sure i have my back up all my current work and get rid of what ever is not important. so the big question is what can you trash and what do you need to keep in this file. if i had to guess, you need to keep all the files that are current, if you delete them then you will need to recapture them. is that correct?

Ian's right.
But if you're brave and - more importantly - are absolutely meticulous about how you logged your clips (reel number being the most important) and are sure that all your DV tapes run in an unbroken 00:00;00-60:00;00 - then you can delete your capture scratch per project whenever you feel comfortable about doing that and then...
... when everything has been reinstalled and reformatted back up you can open your original project files, click capture project and you will be prompted to insert your reels number/name by number/name. FCE will automatically find what you logged.
If you're too late (ie you've entered too many reel 001's) you can still change the reel settings in the appropriate bins in the browser. Just view as list and then and rename the reel settings.
Be sure to name the tapes too.
You should be fine (if you're brave and meticulous).
Incidentally all other files can the FCE docs folder (Waveform cache, thumbnail cache, autosave vault, ender files and audio render files) can be safely deleted. When you re-open your project files you can re-render everything. Just never never delete your project files.
Hope this helps.
M.

How can I remove scratches on a nano

I have a white nano, just baught it and I was trying to clean the lcd, but made a scratch on the lcd instead. I don't know how it happend, anyway how do I get rid of it. What kind of product is good for scratches?

Brasso works very well indeed. I used it on my friends ipods trying to remove the scratches. It leaves the nano looking like new. Try looking at this website. Hope it helps -Omz
http://todd.dailey.info/archives/2005/09/27/restore-your-ipod-nano-to-new-condit ion-with-a-4-can-of-brasso/

I have recently received a project from someone who has already captured the footage, can I use the footage directly from the capture scratch for my new project?

Will this in any way effect my footage when working/exporting? I will be working off the same hard drive.

If all the footage played in FC to begin with and all the media is included in the capture scratch folder you should be good to go but I would check a few things.
Pull the new footage into your project and look under the compressor column. If any files are H264 or MP4 I would recommend converting these to a PR422 or another FC friendly format. Also confirm any audio only files are aiff/48Khz(not mp3 or 44.1Khz).
In my experience you can work with H264,MP4, mp3 & 44.1 in FC7 but you are almost guaranteed to have problems later.

As I can remove the scratches of a iphone 4?

as I can remove the scratches of a iphone 4??

If you are asking if you can remove minor scratches off the iphone 4 glass then there is a solution depending on how bad the scratches are.
1. You can pay to have a repair center replace the glass. OR
2. You can use an automotive glass windscreen scratch repair compound and special pad - on a certain online auction site for $10. Remember to tape up any holes or places where excess compound could get in to the phone and rub slowly. I tried this and it worked! But be very careful not to get compound into the speaker or gaps.
If you can afford it - do option 1 its much safer!

When customizing the Add-on Bar, separators ("|") are not visible. How can I remove them?

Not only are they not visible, they're not selectable either. They /do/ appear normally (i.e., when not customizing toolbars). Running Firefox 22.0 on Linux Mint 15 (Olivia: x86-64).

Your toolbar customizations are stored in the localstore.rdf data file in your currently active Firefox profile folder. This XML-based file makes difficult reading and I don't recall seeing any good documentation on how to edit it. If you want to give it a try, please make a backup first.
If the file becomes corrupted (or more corrupted, as the case may be), you can rename or move it and Firefox will generate a new one with default settings, and you can start customizing from scratch.
With that out of the way, it actually looks as though you should be able to find and remove the separators.
<RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#'''addon-bar'''"
mode="icons"
collapsed="false"
currentset="addonbar-closebutton,stylish-toolbar-button,spring,downloads-button,'''separator''',fireshot-Capture-Button,greasemonkey-tbb,noscript-tbb,fiddlerhook-toolbar-button,status-bar" />
To give this a try:
Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Open Directory" button
Switch back to Firefox and Exit
Pause while Firefox finishes its cleanup, then make a backup copy of '''localstore.rdf''' (e.g., localstore.0808) and open the rdf file in a text editor to find and edit the separators out of the addon bar.
When you restart Firefox, your changes should be evident.
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The current capture scratch drives are too full

I just downloaded this software on my Mac and I am captuing HD video from a Mini HDDV tape camera. I got a error message half way while captuing video
"the current capture scratch drives are too full. Please remove files from these drives or select a new capture scratch location."
How can I move forward with capturing video?

I just downloaded this software on my Mac
How so? Final Cut Express has never been downloadable and was discontinued over 18 months ago. Are you sure you didn't actually download Final Cut Pro X?
Also, it will help us to know exactly what model Mac you are using, what version of OS X, version of FCE and make/model camcorder you are using.

Is there any way I can view / remove pictures from Camera Roll on the iPhone, on a Mac, without actually importing the files?

Is there any way I can view / remove pictures from Camera Roll on the iPhone, on a Mac, without actually importing the files? I just want to view / delete files without importing them.
For instance I have 1200 photos on my iPhone Camera Roll. Some of these are shots, that I've taken multiple times, some good, some bad. I just want to clean up my Camera Roll, but going through the pictures on the iPhone's small screen is tedious. I'd much rather look at the camera roll's photo's on my Mac, and then decide which files I'd like to keep, and which to delete.
I don't want to import the files, as when I import the files, and delete them from Camera Roll, now the Photo's are not on my phone, and the only way to get them back on my Phone is to Import them back in using iTunes, and then they go into the Picture Library and not the Camera Roll.
In the same way as I can view Pics from my digital camera's SD card on a Mac without having to actually copy them to my computer, is there any app out there that will let me view my iPhone pics without importing them.

gsharp01 wrote:
Is there any way I can view / remove pictures from Camera Roll on the iPhone, on a Mac, without actually importing the files? I just want to view / delete files without importing them.
The short answer is yes.
Connect your iPhone to your computer.
Open Image Capture application.
Click on the 4 little squares at bottom to view them as photos, not a list.
Select the photos them click the No Entry icon at bottom to delete.

Can we remove the Continue button from Quiz Results?

Hi Everyone,
Is there any way to remove the continue button from the Quiz Results page?
I have a captivate file in which there is a Thank you slide at the end after the Quiz results slide. Now, here's the problem - The user is just finishing the quiz and closing the browser tab - which is not showing the completion status inside LMS. The user must need to view the Thank you slide - so that the LMS can respond as "Completed" status.
Now, I want to remove the Continue button on Quizzes result slide so that user doesnot need to go ahead to next slide to complete the course. And i will put the Thank You message here in Quizzes result slide only.
Can I remove the continue button from the Quiz Results page so that it can be the last slide?
Regards
Vikas Sharma

Removing the Continue button from the Quiz Results slide is NOT a good idea in my experience. Clicking the Continue button triggers functions in Captivate to terminate the quiz and commit the score to the LMS. If this button is not clicked, Captivate may not be sure the person has decided they're done with the quiz and wants their score to be captured by the LMS at that point. There are often other buttons on the Quiz Results slide to offer the user the option of Retaking or Reviewing the Quiz. Only the Continue button is designed to take them further beyond the Quiz Result slide.
Like yourself, I have also found learners often fail to grasp the importance of the Continue button and don't realise they need to do something extra (beyond reaching the Quiz Results slide) in order for their score to be captured. So what I usually do is rename the Continue button to something more meaningful such as: Register Your Score, or Record Quiz Results Now. Having a name like this (and making the button nice and large and bold so that it's not easy to miss) clearly tells people that they need to click this button if they want their score to be retained. It's just a simple change, but it practically eliminated all issues we had with people just closing down their browser when they saw the Quiz Results.

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